Rebels lose territory to Syrian army and Islamic State
In Syria's civil war, rebels are losing ground with government forces and Islamic State fundamentalists fighting for territory. Jillian Kitchener reports.
In Syria's civil war, rebels are losing ground with government forces and Islamic State fundamentalists fighting for territory. Jillian Kitchener reports.
Follow along for live updates after a container ship crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
U.S. officials have been clear the plan would not include American boots on the ground.
Walking is great, but it can only take you so far.
Disgraced cryptocurrency wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in jail on Thursday following his conviction in one of the biggest financial fraud cases in history.Calling Bankman-Fried's seven-count conviction reflective of the defendant's "unmatched greed and hubris," the government's sentencing request argued for significant jail time in light of fraud it estimates at more than $10 billion.
Nearly four years after Joe Biden flipped Arizona blue, the state — and in particular, its largest county, Maricopa — remains a hub for debunked claims of election fraud. In 2021, Republicans pushed for a recount of the vote in Maricopa, a lengthy and chaotic process that failed to validate former President Donald Trump’s false claims that the vote had been rigged. A year later, Kari Lake, a close Trump ally who lost the governor’s race, baselessly claimed that her election had been stolen, too.
The clockworks of the cosmos are responsible for how long the sky show lasts in your location.
No one would argue that the climate in North Texas is ideal for growing lettuce, a crop that thrives when there’s a chill in the air. But the region’s broiling summers are of no concern to Eddy Badrina, chief executive of Eden Green Technology, a vertical, hydroponic greenhouse company just outside Dallas. The company, which sells its leafy greens to Walmart, controls every aspect of a plant’s life. At its 82,500-square-foot facility, cool air is pumped in to create the ideal microclimate around
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked Israel's top court on Thursday to defer a deadline for the government to come up with a new military conscription plan that would address mainstream anger at the exemptions granted to ultra-Orthodox Jews. The draft issue is especially sensitive as Israel's armed forces, made up mostly of teenaged conscripts and civilians mobilised for reserve duty, wage a nearly six-month-old war in Gaza to try to eliminate the Islamist group Hamas that rules the Palestinian enclave.
The Taliban promised the Trump administration it wouldn't allow terror groups to plot attacks on Afghan soil. That vow has gone unfulfilled.
Two children are among at least six people who have been detained or questioned in Russia over online comments viewed as "justifying terrorism" since last week's deadly attack on a concert hall, according to local authorities and Russian media. The Federal Security Service (FSB) has urged people to tell the authorities immediately if they hear of any calls to carry out attacks in Russia. Both President Vladimir Putin and the FSB chief have said they believe Ukraine was involved in the attack, for which the Islamic State militant group has claimed responsibility.
2024's first quarter has been fruitful for investors.
Ever since Anthony Bridges found out he had prostate cancer six years ago, he hasn’t stopped talking about it. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin kept his prostate cancer quiet, including from President Joe Biden. Dr. Otis Brawley says he’s encountered men who don’t even want to talk about their prostate cancer with their own doctors.
Debt-plagued Thames Water has failed to raise a major cash injection from shareholders, it revealed Thursday, blaming industry regulations that made its rescue plan "uninvestable".The company on Thursday said it was in talks with industry regulator Ofwat over a plan that is "affordable for customers, deliverable and financeable for Thames Water, as well as investible for equity investors".
The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate fell slightly this week, welcome news for home shoppers facing rising prices and a stubbornly low inventory of properties on the market this spring homebuying season. The average rate on a 30-year mortgage slipped to 6.79% from 6.87% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. A year ago it averaged 5.56%, Freddie Mac said.
When a rare total solar eclipse sweeps across North America on April 8, scientists will be able to gather invaluable data on everything from the Sun's atmosphere to strange animal behaviors -- and even possible effects on humans.During the last total solar eclipse visible from the United States in August 2017, scientists observed a "decline in the number of animals flying around," Farnsworth told reporters.
Sam Bankman-Fried co-founded the FTX crypto exchange in 2019 and quickly built it into the world's second most popular place to trade digital currency. Prosecutors soon charged Bankman-Fried with misappropriating billions of dollars in FTX customer deposits. FTX had two lines of business: a brokerage where customers could deposit, buy, and sell cryptocurrency assets on the FTX platform, and an affiliated hedge fund known as Alameda Research, which took speculative positions in cryptocurrency investments.
He was the face of cryptocurrency, and a young one at that -- a media darling seemingly destined to unite the sector.The young man known as SBF would charm US lawmakers with his straight talk and vision of crypto's future, including recommendations for an extensive regulatory regime -- a position at odds with many in the sector.
Russia said Thursday it had evidence the perpetrators of last week's massacre at a concert hall outside Moscow were linked to "Ukrainian nationalists", a claim that the United States called nonsense."As a result of work with the detained terrorists, examination of the technical devices seized from them and analysis of information on financial transactions, evidence of their links with Ukrainian nationalists has been obtained," Russia's Investigative Committee said on Thursday.
New details are emerging after a massive cargo ship plowed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, destroying it and killing a group of construction workers.
Walgreens lost nearly $6 billion in its second quarter mainly due to a drop in value for the VillageMD clinic business it controls. Excluding that charge, the drugstore chain reported results Thursday that topped Wall Street expectations. Walgreens spent more than $5 billion a few years ago to acquire a majority stake in VillageMD and launch a plan to add hundreds of clinics to its stores and grow its ability to provide care.